timtyler comments on Discussion: Yudkowsky's actual accomplishments besides divulgation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 26 June 2011 01:20:13PM *  15 points [-]

He got Peter Thiel to donate $1.1 million to the SIAI, which you should take as a sign of EY's potential and achievements.

It shows marketing skill. That doesn't necessarily indicate competence in other fields - and this is an area where competence is important. Especially so if you want to participate in the race - and have some chance of actually winning it.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 May 2012 09:24:50AM *  0 points [-]

Indeed. Antonino Zichichi is a far worse physicist than what pretty much any Italian layman believes, even though it was him who got the Gran Sasso laboratories funded.